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8 | Fishing Info: 402-471-0641 OTHER TYPES OF PERMITS Fee-Exempt Permits – These are available to resident veterans who: • are 50 percent disabled as a result of armed forces service • receive a pension from the Veterans Administration as a result of a total and permanent disability not incurred in the line of duty while in military service • obtained fee-exempt permits before Jan. 1, 2006 Veteran and Senior Permits – An annual fish/hunt permit is available for resident veterans age 64 and older and residents age 69 and older. Special Fishing Permit – This annual permit is for physically or developmentally disabled residents who cannot cast or retrieve unassisted. • This entitles the disabled person and one person assisting him or her to take, fish, catch, harvest, or possess any aquatic organism in compliance with state regulations. • If the person assisting does not have a valid fishing permit, they are restricted to one daily bag limit between the two anglers. • Disabled person is a person certified by a physician to have a permanent physical impairment or developmental disability that results in the inability to use fishing equipment unassisted. • Applications are available from Game and Parks district offices and service centers, as well as the Omaha office and Schramm Education Center (formerly Ak-Sar-Ben Aquarium). Educational Fishing Project Permit – This may be obtained by instructors at any university, college, or high school from the Fisheries Division for his/her students, 16 years of age and older who are participating in an educational fishing project. Paddlefish Permit – Required, along with a Nebraska fishing permit, for taking paddlefish by snagging or archery. Salvage Permit – The permit allows for the salvage of fish from selected irrigation canals located in the Platte River, Republican River and Loup River drainages. Applications must be submitted to Game and Parks' North Platte district office or the Kearney service center. Live fish cannot be transported in water from a canal because of the potential for moving diseases and aquatic invasive species. Fish for consumption should be transported on ice. PERMIT REVOCATION Under Nebraska law, hunting and fishing privileges may be revoked for some game law and court-determined violations. This could include certain one-time offenses by individuals or repeated violations by habitual offenders. Any person whose privilege to hunt, fish or harvest fur has been suspended or revoked in another jurisdiction within the United States or Canada also shall be prohibited from obtaining a permit for such activity in Nebraska for the duration of the suspension. BORDER WATERS Anglers holding a Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, or Missouri sport fishing license may fish all waters of the Missouri River in the state they are licensed, as well as Missouri River waters of the state immediately across the river. • Missouri River waters are defined to include all flowing portions and backwaters, sloughs and chutes that draw water from the Missouri River. • Oxbows and backwaters separated from the Missouri River by land are included if the state boundary line passes through some part of such waters. • Mouths of tributaries may be fished only in the state that the angler is licensed. • Anglers may fish from either bank or boats. • Anglers fishing in the state for which they do not hold a fishing permit must abide by the more restrictive of the two state's regulations. • Iowa and Missouri resident anglers may fish waters of Hamburg Bend Wildlife Management Area and the Nebraska portion of the Missouri River from the chute entrance (adjacent to Iowa) to the chute exit (adjacent to Missouri).

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